China’s most influential space industry contractor has unveiled a space robot, and it looks an awful lot like Marvel’s Iron Man. It’s painted in red and yellow and even has a lit up piece at the center of the chest that very closely resembles the socket where Tony Stark’s arc reactor usually lies.
This must have come as a wonderful sight to fans of the franchise, and it perhaps attaches some more hope to the efforts towards space exploration. The robot, built by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, is named Xiaotian, or ‘Little Sky’. The humanoid is apparently able to withstand extreme space conditions and complex tasks, and it’s to be deployed for future Chinese lunar landings, space station constructions and even unmanned space probe missions.
The robot was first introduced at Shanghai’s 17th annual China International Industry Fair, where the Chinese government also presented a model of a future Mars space probe. This would be the first one to come out of China, and they’re hoping for a launch date at 2020. Surely they hope to attach these hopes to Iron Man, whose movies have earned up over $350 million in China alone.
Though the Chinese have a knack for emulating Western pop culture, this seems to only come of good intentions and good style and assertive attitude that is usually associated with Tony Stark and Iron Man.
China Makes A Robot that Looks Like Iron Man
